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Jenine K. Harris, PhD
Data science professional with extensive leadership, teaching, and mentoring experience. Current position at a top-tier university includes teaching statistics courses, leading training on data visualization and analysis, writing statistics books, conducting and publishing research, and mentoring junior level faculty and graduate students. Accomplishments include writing the award-winning Statistics with R: Solving Problems Using Real World Data (2020) and An Introduction to Exponential Random Graph Modeling (2014), writing and publishing the odds.n.ends R package on CRAN, and authoring or co-authoring 90+ peer-reviewed scientific publications on gender equity in STEM, research reproducibility, and other topics. Co-founder/co-organizer of the R-Ladies St. Louis community group teaching women to code and facilitator of R and RMarkdown workshops for faculty, researchers, and trainees in the US and abroad.
I am seeking a data science opportunity to apply my leadership, technical, and training skills to new challenges.
Professional Experience
Professor
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
current - 2010
- Developed stable R packages so that students and data scientists could interact with my code. Packages were published on CRAN proving they were stable enough to be used globally.
- Authored or co-authored more than 90 peer-reviewed publications on gender equity in STEM, research reproducibility, social networks, social media, and other topics.
- Taught graduate-level courses in introductory and intermediate biostatistics and R skills with a particular focus on data literacy. Teaching evaluations from students were above the mean score for faculty in my school for all courses.
- Co-founded and co-directed a peer tutoring center for statistics.
- Conducted workshops for faculty and trainees in R and RMarkdown.
Education
PhD Public Health Studies, Biostatistics Concentration
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO, USA
2008 - 2004
- Dissertation title: Social network analysis and public health systems.
- Relevant Coursework: Applied Linear Modeling, Structural Equation Modeling, Social Network Analysis, Multilevel Modeling, Categorical Data Analysis, Survival Analysis.
Other Relevant Experience
Co-Founder & Co-Organizer
R-Ladies St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
current - 2017
- Started St. Louis chapter of R-Ladies, a global organization with the mission of increasing gender diversity in the R community.
- Organize 4–9 hands-on free R workshops each year.
- Built partnerships with local businesses to provide space and food for workshops and networking.
R Trainer
Various
Global
current - 2020
- Trained researchers on R and data visualzation as part of the 2021 Academic Hive Research Bootcamp held in Calabar, Nigeria.
- Conducted R introduction and data visualization training for child maltreatement prevention researchers at the University of Chicago.
- Taught data visualization in R virtual workshop at the 2021 American Public Health Association annual meeting.
R Package Developer
CRAN
Global
current - 2019
- Wrote, published, and maintain the odds.n.ends R package that computes and displays odds ratios and confidence intervals, a contingency table, count R-squared, sensitivity and specificity, an ROC curve, and model significance from a generalized linear model object.
- https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/odds.n.ends/index.html
- Downloaded over 15,000 times as of February, 2022.
Selected Volunteer Experience
Library Board Member
Webster Groves City Council
St. Louis, MO, USA
current - 2019
- Leading strategic planning efforts for next 5 years as chair of advance planning committee.
Notary Public
St. Louis City and County
St. Louis, MO, USA
current - 2020
- Certified in summer 2020 and volunteered to notarize at election events.
- Provide free ballot notary services upon request.